Hacks threaten PSP profits; hackers couldn't care less

The only thing that will make me update my firmware is the release of some high-quality games. To this day the only game I have for the PSP is Lumines. Bring us some better titles, and we won't have to resort to emulators and homebrew.

I on the other hand see no value in running any "Homebrew". I didn't pay £150 to run emulations of 15 year old games, i want titles that show the system's performance.

Oh and i don't plan on "stealing" any games by running downloaded dumps of them off the Memory stick either.

While i feel the games lineup is lacking at the moment, and that they are quite overpriced, GTA and Ridge Racer alone have shown that i made a good investment, especially considering the PSP is currently only running at 2/3rds of it's MHz.

Sony need to get off thier ass and support us with a variety of games, a good range of addons and accessories, and affordable films. That or some better damn software to make our own!

All in all, i love my PSP, i actually consider it to be a more satisfying console than my PS2. :)

I just got one and many thing dissappoint - no full res video ? no user writable UMD's for movies and tv shows I record myself (Mem sticks are way to costly) and the mp3 software just blows I can only see one title on the screen while playing can peruse other titles and even when not p;laying can only see a few titles making it nearly useless as an MP3 player.

I dont want emulators my zodiac does a better job at that with its closer to normal aspect ratio screen and cheaper dual SD card slots

but I DO want homebrew - I want a video player that will play divx I already encode everything to mpeg1 and divx I want to play those formats not be forced into yet another format

I also have a serious issue with sony - this psp belongs to me ITS MINE to do with as I please - personally it should be illegal in my opinion for any hardware maker to do ANYTHING to inhibit my ability to do absolutely anything I want with my hardware. I OWN IT its not rented leased or loaned its MINE it should doas I command NOT as sony commands they dont own thisi PSP I DO.

Chris Taylor
http://www.nerys.com/

Also hacking can only increase PSP sales not hurt them. people looking to pirate games are not going to suddenly start droppng $50 notes if they CANT pirate them.

I have little interest in the PSP for its gaming - I am into the whicked cool hardware (that sony keeps trying to take from me) and the potential for what IT can do.

Movies are interesting to me since it has a relatively large screen but I will only buy them used - I am NOT paying $20 or more for a movie that is limited to a PSP when I can get a DVD and put that into anything I want INCLUDING a PSP. but thankfully the movies are really cheap used most are $10 sometimes less

I also LOVE the aspect of movie game mixes !! Stealth and a version of wipeout pure with a "stealth" ship - GENIUS and $12.99 rocked (again used)

Sadly I wont be buying to many games. sorry sony I am NOT paying $40 and $50 for a freakiung hand held game I dont even pay that much for Full Blown PC games !!

so if they are taking a loss on the hardware shame on sony thats there problem.

Stop raping us with the game pricing starting doing more STEALTH like movies with minigames related to the movie (THATS a value add worth buying and a damned good idea)

Give me a SET TOP umd player and RECORDER and blank UMD's as cheap as Minidiscs are and you will have something special here !!!

DO what you do best sell good hardware and make sure that setop umd player can stretch to full 4:3 I HATE widescreen (unless I am using a widescreen player and the only one I got is a PSP cause I aint paying 3 grand for a TV :-)

Stop thinking restrict and punish and start thinking CUSTOMER FIRST !!!

Dont be stupid - you have an AMAZING peice of hardware here STOP restricting it. I dont want your crap I WANT HOMEBREW CRAP unrestricted make this POWERHOUSE do ANYTHING I WANT crap :-)

you are crippling an amazing peice of hardware and its getting you NO WHERE

Chris Hoping sony will hear reason Taylor
http://www.nerys.com/

I think at $350 (CDN) for the PSP hardware, SCEA aren't taking too much of a hit on the hardware, and amazing hardware at that.

I have had a PSP for 2 months now, and it doesn't get enough use to use it as a gaming console, whence I have never bought a UMD (and that cracks me up, Universal Media Disk, why?, what else does it read on that makes it Universal) game, I have rented them, but I play old Genesis games (I'm a Sonic Hedgehog Junkie), to do this I need to have 1.5 Firmware but new games are forcing the upgrade on me, I don't like having a system manufacturer tell me what I can and can't do with the hardware I own, I think that somehow this needs to be made illegal on a global scale, however I dougt this will ever happen because the US DMCA gives Sony the teeth to get away with this. I have to agree that there are those who will exploit the tinkering of others to avoid purchasing a legal game, and while Gratis is appealing, I also realise that games cost money to develop and market, and there are gamers out there who loved gaming so much they decided to work on their production, these people need to feed their families and provide too.

I think it's time technology looked into stemming the distribution of pirated games (or movies, or music) and not restrict the copying, after all, it's foolish to think that everyone who copies a piece of copyrighted work is also going to distribute it.

all the negative comments being voiced here are all bang on,the psp is just funding the development of the enormously powerfull blu ray ps3,so to me this is probably why there seems to be so many glitches,sony dont really care how mediocre their expensive handheld is because all will be forgotten when they wipe the floor with everything else on the market when they launch the beast,developers just take the coin.